Sophia

Theology as sophia would therefore be the capacity, the skill to adapt one’s thought to revelation, to find skillful and inspired words which would bear witness in the language – but not in the limits – of human thought, in replying to the needs of the moment. ~ Vladimir Lossky

To trust in our ability to grasp the ‘whole thing’ is to refuse to see reality.

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Before 1999 I was active in mental health doing assessments, emergency interventions, psychotherapy, domestic violence group treatment, and consulting in the foster care system. Rapidly, in 1999 I was lovingly shoved in disability because of temporal lobe epilepsy. Then, in June of 2001 my left temporal lobe was chucked into a trashcan. Since then, I have been playing at reconfiguring the who I had been. I just have too many spare parts still strewn across the floor.

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Words are not the Word, but point towards the Word. Ah, there’s a poem in there somewhere. St Nikolai said that God is so big that he must withdraw himself for us to see him. We are like fish swimming in the generosity of his presence. To say “here is God, and there he is not” only reveals our blindness.